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Star your good points, clothes will help you.
The reaction was bound to come by
reason of eternalprecedent. White is safe in any room, black is at times too
strong. She would look differently,be different and has not the wisdom to shake
off her fetters. It is her _mind_ that is wrong; it is turned _in_,instead of
_out_. Some people buy footwear as they buy fruit; they like what they see,
sothey get it!
Looking about, one feels in anArabian Nights dream. It is no
mere chance, this use of vivid colour. She it is who carries everyoccasion she
graces--indoors, out-of-doors, at home, abroad. The sculpture relief is
enamelled terra-cotta in white, blue, green, yellow and manganese colours. What
we do, and how we do it, is oftenseriously and strangely affected by what we
have on. It is no mere chance, this use of vivid colour. PLATE VII
Fifteenth-century costumes on the Holy Women at the Tomb of our Lord. CHAPTER
VIIFOOTWEARFootwear points the costume; every child should be taught
this.
Though she possess both style andbeauty, she elects to emphasise
style.
It is no mere chance, this use of vivid colour. When away from ones own
setting,personality is one of the chief assets of every woman.
It is well to
follow this colour instinct in clothes aswell as in furnishing. This border
surrounds the pictures whichillustrate the text. Both _how_ and_when_ still
annoy us as a nation. Mark Twain, in his last days, insisted that he wrote
moreeasily in his night-shirt. Gothic costumes in Gothicinteriors, and Early
Renaissance costumes in Renaissance interiors. Also our sensible skirt may be
far toonarrow for comfort.
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